Re: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Christopher Ambler wrote:
> 
> It would also make it into a buyable beauty contest, subject
> to serious corruption and capture.

   And your alternative is?  


> 
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> Christopher Ambler
> chris@the.web
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-wg-c@dnso.org [mailto:owner-wg-c@dnso.org]On Behalf Of James
> Love
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 7:09 PM
> To: wg-c@dnso.org
> Subject: [wg-c] Choosing the intial testbed
> 
> There are a large number of proposals for TLDs.  If ICANN begins with
> the WG-C proposal of 6 to 10 testbed TLDs, it will be pretty hard to
> decide which TLDs go first.
> 
> Assuming that the testbed is simply the first step in a real expansion
> of the TLD space (as were the first testbed registrars for .com, .net
> and .org), it may not be extremely important which ones go first, but it
> will probably be important enough to be controversial.
> 
> I propose the decision making be decentralized.  I would recommend 3 be
> selected by the business/registrar constituencies, 3 by the
> non-commercial domain holders, and 3 selected by the ICANN at large
> members, in an online vote.  That's 9, and the 10th could be selected in
> some other way.  Perhaps a lottery by those with "pioneer" proposals, or
> something else.  This would provide a simple way to reduce the power
> that any one group would have, and it would probably also lead to some
> diversity in the types of management structures considered in the first
> round.
> 
>    Jamie
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